Mae West on history
Mae West100 quotes“Women with pasts interest men because they hope history will repeat itself.”
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The best way to hold a man is in your arms.
Mae WestMae West She’s the kind of girl who climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong.
Mae WestMae West Marriage is a fine institution, but I’m not ready for an institution.
Mae WestMae West It takes two to get one in trouble.
Mae WestMae West When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I’ve never tried before.
Mae WestMae West I’m a good woman for a bad man.
Mae WestMae West A man’s kiss is his signature.
Mae WestMae West Every man I meet wants to protect me. I can’t figure out what from.
Mae WestMae West Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often.
Mae WestMae West I have never loved a man as much as I have loved myself.
Mae WestMae West Positive thoughts generate positive feelings and attract positive life experiences.
Mae WestMae West I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number you get in a diamond.
Mae WestMae West A woman in love can’t be reasonable – or she probably wouldn’t be in love.
Mae WestMae West Dress gives one the outward sign from which people in general can, and often do, judge upon the inward state of mind and feelings.
Mae WestMae West Women are like roads. The more curves they have, the more dangerous they are.
Mae WestMae West Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly.
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You were fully clothed in lies, I was naked in truth. Still, when morning came It was I who survived the cold.
Obehi Vessel A.Obehi Vessel A. I loved you as Icarus loved the sun- too close, too much.
David JonesDavid Jones We attract who our souls need to grow.
Mark AnthonyMark Anthony You’re my bad habit, on this dark planet, light up my world like stars, now they’re ashes.
Chris AllchinChris Allchin Permanence is a wonderful magician. Now you see him, next he goes on to perform the greatest disappearing act of all time.
Hamilton K. AmadiHamilton K. Amadi Live to be happy not to impress.
Hayley EvansHayley Evans You shined your light on all the things I’ve been trying so hard to hide.
CindyCindy You are the love I could never escape not that I would ever want to.
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More on history
It is not the kings and generals that make history, but the masses of the people.
Nelson MandelaNelson Mandela Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world’s original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have been different.
Oscar WildeOscar Wilde Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances, but under circumstances existing already, given and transmitted from the past.
Karl MarxKarl Marx If you want to make history, you have to do historic things.
Kobe BryantKobe Bryant Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good.
Thomas SowellThomas Sowell Man makes his own history, but he does not make it out of the whole cloth; he does not make it out of conditions chosen by himself, but out of such as he finds close at hand.
Karl MarxKarl Marx Cultures aren’t so much planned as they evolve from that early set of people.
Jeff BezozJeff Bezoz I had no idea that history was being made. I was just tired of giving up.
Rosa ParksRosa Parks
